Michael Schlessinger
Michael Schlessinger is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who worked in algebraic geometry.
Career[]
Schlessinger obtained his Ph.D. in 1964 from Harvard University, under the supervision of John Tate.[1]
He proved Schlessinger's theorem about representable functors of Artinian algebras and introduced Lichtenbaum–Schlessinger functors in deformation theory.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[2]
References[]
- ^ Michael Schlessinger at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-07-14.
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Categories:
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- Harvard University alumni
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- Living people